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August 20, 2009 9:18 am I love the sheer number of titles with women in active lead roles.  I love Batgirl, Sirens, Marvel Divas, the entire X-lineup, the Avengers shenanignas, Doktor Sleepless, Freakangels, Fables --  Every week, every single week, there's a title from SOMEONE with a strong woman in a lead role.

August 10, 2009 8:36 pm

Marvel Divas, Fables, Uncanny X-Men, UXM First Class.

 

BQ:  65 degrees, sunny, light breeze, not humid. 

July 27, 2009 7:37 pm

Detective Comics!!

 

BQ:  I second ohcaroline's answer. 

July 15, 2009 8:34 am

I think this is one of the least contrived stories in the Marvel U right now -- the realistic implications of a powerful minority living in an American city, the realistic implications of hate groups in our country, the realistic needs of a new government agency to take a firm stand -- this is the X-Men as metaphor, which they *always have been*.  This is the X-Men standing in for Muslims, for gays, for every group that believes itself to be oppressed.  The Humanity bastards are the stand-ins for every group in this country who thinks the way to protect their rights involves killing someone else.  Did you all know that there is a shortage of shotgun ammunition in the country right now?  The gun club I belong to says this is because Obama is conspiring to keep ammunition out of the hands of gun owners.  The gun club I belong to encourages hoarding, so that every gun owner will be armed when the police come to take your gun away from you.  Politics of fear-based hatred in fiction are not contrived, not forced.  They are in the history of this country, in our blood from the Anti-Immigration Riots of the 1880s, to the Burnt-Over Country, to the race riots of the 60s.

I love that the Fraction is taking this up.  I loved it when Morrison dealt with these themes in New X-Men, I loved it when Claremont dealt with this in Uncanny 200, I loved it in District X, I loved it in NYX.  I would be upset if the X-Men were, yet again, ignored by the greater plots of the Marvel U, if Dark Reign passed them by.  Osborn is too smart a guy, albeit crazy, to leave the mutants unwatched.  I'm really happy, too, that ONE writer is doing the whole Utopia plot.  That gives us a coherent story told across multiple issues, it binds the Marvel U together.

July 13, 2009 7:09 pm

I am really looking forward to New Mutants, Streets of Gotham, and Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers.

 

BQ:  Rabid raccoon, please. 

July 6, 2009 6:19 pm

Wow, not a lot for me this week!  But I'll be picking up the Back to Brooklyn tpb, and trying out that North 40 #1, which looks interesting.  

 

BQ:  GREAT.  GREAT SUMMER.  I saw PARAMORE last night. 

June 1, 2009 9:55 am Dude!  I was going to write about this for Fantastic Fangirls this month!  Now I need to see if I have anything else to add. . . .  I suspect not!  (All of which is to say, great review!)

May 26, 2009 3:21 pm I'm hitting refresh on the Forum link, waiting to see more entry links!

May 26, 2009 2:00 pm I'm reading them all now -- amazing work.  Thanks again, iFanboy, for running this!

May 19, 2009 1:42 pm

I use Google Docs, and keep the formatting as clean as possible -- no underlining or bold or italics or any such thing.  Why?  Because I never know what word processing program the person I am sending it to will be using.  When I send it I copy the doc into an rtf file and send away . . .   Of course, this works in part because comics scripts are for 16-22 pages, not 120 pages of movie script.